On the Chopping Block

CHOW reviews the best wood cutting boards.

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. The new kitchen floor is not and is the problem. If I could, I’d replace with either hardwood (ash would be my preference), bamboo or cork. My dad has an older home and replaced the old vinyl tile floor (installed over 6...

Hello, I’m not sure what American hardwood you mean that would be lightweight. I recently retired a maple board after 20+years of use and began using a bamboo one. They are practially identical in weight, close to the same...

be a grass bamboo wood is harder than maple or oak, will not absorb moisture nearly as fast as hardwood making it far more bacteria resistant. So there are Pros and cons to each product. Here is an interesting thread started by...

I’m looking for a new cutting board and want something that will last, be easy to clean and easy on knives. Money is not an issue, I’m prepared to spend on something of good quality. I know, all of the above describes...

Marble and glass are deadly to your edges. Bamboo is also to hard. Maple, or any other hardwood would be okay.

a problem with some white cutting board hardwoods and bamboo being too hard feeling—gives me that chalkboard/fingernail feeling) but they don’t scratch up in a bad way with use. If I ever have a house of my own, I...

of choice on the boards. What I wonder.. is I’ve found chopping boards that simply state End Grain and hardwoods.. is this a good choice.. or should one specifically state Maple? I currently have bamboo boards.. has anyone...

Restaurants that use charcoal for cooking, whether at the table or in the kitchen, are most likely using hardwood charcoal. They would never use briquettes due to taste concerns, ash production, etc. Based on previous posts, it...

I’m looking for a thick (2" at least) wood chopping block (preferably hardwood) that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg. Was in Tap Phong and they were asking $90!. Anywhere cheaper?

As far as I’m aware, Boos only makes hardwood cutting boards, and I doubt that a wood board is going to survive many trips through the dishwasher. I’ve used maple boards for years – in the case of one board...

It’s nice to have a beefy end-grain hardwood or bamboo board for the majority of your prep, and then something like a biohazard-red polyethylene board for raw meat, fish, and poultry. Never the twain shall meet, and if you...

millstone (not sure of the stone used, though) thin sticks of bamboo bundled together and simply tied into a whisk-like configuration; I use mine it to brush clean my Daikon grater under the faucet. I’ve also seen it used to...

floors installed with 4 kids and 4 dogs those floors took a pounding. Cork like hardwoods just keep going and going. I have wood in my kitchen and like it but if I were in market again for new flooring cork is something I...